more on the mail problem

[Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>]

Upon more fiddling, I find that sendmail is listening on port 25, and
mailq informs me that there have been attempts at communication:

eyry:/home/hawk# mailq
                Mail Queue (8 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
QAA01575        8 Thu Jun 25 16:43 hawk
                                   hawk
QAA01581        6 Thu Jun 25 16:43 hawk
                                   inc
                                   rhawkins@iastate.edu
QAA02340        5 Thu Jun 25 16:53 root
                                   hawk@eyry.econ
QAA01595        4 Thu Jun 25 16:45 <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
                                   <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
QAA02356        3 Thu Jun 25 16:55 <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
                                   <marlys@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
QAA02349       12 Thu Jun 25 16:54 <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
                                   <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
QAA02303    31263 Thu Jun 25 16:50 <debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org>
      8BITMIME
                                   <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
QAA01628        0 Thu Jun 25 16:48 hawk
                                   rhawkins@iastate.edu
eyry:/home/hawk# 

so why aren't they talking?  mail neither goes in nor out, but attempts
in either direction are duly logged.  I just don't get it.


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